The 11th edition of the Fair, with the theme of “Cultural Resistance for National Pride” fulfilled the expectations of the Directive Commission of arteBA and its team of collaborators, as well as those of all that participated and the general public itself, which allowed the fair such a success in such a difficult time.
The participation of the public, more than 86,000 people in 10 days and sales: 800 works both astonished and heightened everyone’s spirits.
The changes this year: The galleries that have opened over the last three years: Braga Menéndez-Schuster, Dabbah-Torrejón, Del Infinito, Elsie del Río and Luisa Pedrouzo, have extended the scope of choice in contemporary art, accompanied very graciously by Ruth Benzacar, the pioneering gallery in this field, and the gallery of San Pablo, Thomás Cohn, attracting a new group of enthusiasts to the art market.
The new spaces for youth art: Belleza y Felicidad, Consorcio de Arte de Buenos Aires, Espacio Vox, Instantes Gráficos, Lelé de Troya, MOPT, Sonoridad Amarilla, and the youth spaces of Ruth Benzacar and Van Riel, have been intensely visited during the fair and have sold a great deal, enlarging even further the variety of what its possible in the fair and reaching a much greater number of people.
The public also showed a lot of interest in the historical Argentinean and Rio de la Plata artists. These artists could be seen as much in Maman as in the traditional galleries: Sur, Principium, Vermeer, amongst others, and in the institutional spaces of the Fundación Banco Provincia de Buenos Aires, the Fundación Andreani, the space of the Secretaría de Cultura and the Museo Xul Solar.
The video installation of Silvia Rivas, Charly Nijensohn and Carlos Trilnick: “A vision of the human”, sponsored by the Generalitat Valenciana, turned out to be the best bet of the Fair, given that it strengthened its contemporary aspect with a multimedia work of great magnitude and introduced the public to a form of art that the majority of participants in the fair had not had access to up to that point.
